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Take action Congress! The Legislative Branch & Judicial Branch must make the Executive Branch bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia. On April 10, 2025, the United States Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man wrongfully deported to El Salvador. It wasn’t a suggestion. It wasn’t an invitation. It was a direct command from the highest court in the land. And Donald Trump’s Department of Justice told them to go to hell. Let’s stop dressing this up in legalese. The DOJ didn’t “miss a deadline.” They didn’t “struggle with logistics.” They ignored the ruling. Brazenly. Deliberately. Openly. As if the Court didn’t matter. As if law doesn’t matter. This wasn’t a bureaucratic mix-up. It was a power play. And we all saw it. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was under court protection when Trump’s ICE agents dragged him out of the country and dumped him in the very place he fled: a Salvadoran prison crawling with gang members he’d risked everything to escape. He’s now missing. The government won’t say where he is. And no one can guarantee he’s alive. This is how democracies die—not with a bang, but with a shrug from a rogue administration that knows it can get away with murder. And don’t kid yourself. That’s what this is. If Kilmar Abrego Garcia is killed in El Salvador, it will be state-sanctioned execution by negligence. Ordered by ICE, rubber-stamped by Trump’s DOJ, and now covered up with delay tactics and contemptuous silence. The Supreme Court gave the administration a chance to fix it. They said: bring him back. Trump’s people responded: make us. They’re not just ignoring the law. They’re daring the Court to stop them. And the terrifying truth? No one has. Judge Paula Xinis is demanding daily updates. She’s asking where Kilmar is, what’s being done to find him, what steps have been taken. But all she’s getting back are vague statements and empty assurances—“We’re reviewing,” “We’re assessing,” “It’s complicated.” No, it’s not. If the president of the United States can thumb his nose at the Supreme Court and walk away without consequence, we’re not living in a constitutional democracy. We’re living in something else. Something colder. Crueler. And don’t think this stops with immigration. Today it’s Kilmar. Tomorrow it’s any court order Trump doesn’t like. An indictment. A subpoena. A voting rights case. A gag order. If the DOJ can get away with ignoring the Court once, what’s to stop them from doing it again? What’s to stop them from doing it every time? This moment is a red line. Cross it, and the Constitution becomes a museum piece. Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s life matters. But so does the precedent. If this administration is allowed to disappear a man, defy the courts, and face no accountability, then the rule of law is already dead. The president dared the Supreme Court to act. Now it must. Or be remembered as the institution that blinked while democracy burned.